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Building Regional Solidarity for People-Centered Land Governance

Asia

Monday, 5th August 2019

At the Facilitators’ Meeting in Ahmedabad, India, participants raised the importance of building regional solidarity among ILC Asia platforms in striving for people-centered land governance in the region.

Millions of Adivasi and forest dwellers face eviction

Asia

Thursday, 14th March 2019

This video and legal brief (from Land Forum India) explain the recent decision by the Supreme Court of India to evict indigenous peoples and forest dwellers from their native forests in more than 16 states. Learn more about what is at stake for these neglected forest communities.

Ensuring land tenure rights to marginalised and vulnerable communities in India

Asia

Friday, 9th March 2018

India faces enormous challenges in its quest to develop in a socially conscience, economically and environmentally just manner. In regards to developing responsible land governance, it remains a complex issue aggravated by a combination of systematic legal and institutional failures. Institutions that govern land, market and societies have fundamental weaknesses to address land and property issues of poor rural women and men, Tribals, and Dalits.

National Conference on Land Reform in India

Asia

Friday, 8th December 2017

In India, land reform is currently a forgotten agenda. Immediately after India’s independence, the Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru promised to eliminate the intermediaries and restore land to the tiller resulting in the passing of historic Zamindari Abolition Act in 1956. Yet unfortunately, land has never became the core agenda of the successive governments despite various revolutionary steps through social movements.